Obama nominates Evanston native

CHEYENNE — President Barack Obama has nominated Wyoming Attorney General and Evanston native Greg Phillips for a seat on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Phillips has been Wyoming’s attorney general since March 2011. Before that, he served as a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Cheyenne, and also worked as a lawyer for the state and in private practice in Cheyenne.

Phillips grew up in Evanston and served as a Democratic state senator from Uinta County from 1993 to 1998. He is a graduate of the University of Wyoming College of Law, and worked for two years after graduation for U.S. District Judge Alan B. Johnson in Cheyenne.